Biba, an Internet conferencing startup that came out of stealth last spring, today launched a new desktop app with screen-sharing capability and HD audio. The service, designed originally to be used on iOS and Android operating systems, is now available on both Mac and Windows machines. Biba follows the concept that today’s services are more than […]
Posted on December 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Two developers who met at Harvard University 15 years ago, are the winners of the Salesforce.com $1 million hackathon for its service to create mobile reports for sales people using the Salesforce.com platform. The app, called Upshot, was developed by Thom Kim and Joseph Turian. The service parses data in plain english, connects via API […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Salesforce.com and HP are forming an alliance to create what they call a “Superpod,” that will provide customers with HP’s converged hardware to run on the SaaS provider’s infrastructure. HP CEO Meg Whitman will announce the news on stage tomorrow at Dreamforce with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The superpod converged infrastructure, designed by HP, is what IT […]
Posted on November 19th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but […]
Posted on November 18th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, showing the strength of the open-source database and its market maturity. CTO Werner Vogels said onstage at the AWS re:Invent conference that the database offering falls in line with the scope of services that the cloud service offers. Vogels said the service offers the capability to […]
Posted on November 16th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon is offering a new service called Kinesis that streams data in real time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per-second basis. The service, designed for real-time apps, allows developers to pull any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up and down as needed. Kinesis can create any […]
Posted on November 16th, 2013 by admin
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Runscope, which develops tools that monitor API traffic, has launched a new automated API and backend service testing tool to improve the quality of mobile apps. The new Runscope Radar service, launched here at AWS re:Invent, is designed to alleviate the concerns that comes with changing backend APIs. It allows app maintainers to verify that […]
Posted on November 15th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but […]
Posted on November 13th, 2013 by admin
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Swiss mobile cloud-based field service app maker Coresystems has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding – its first external funding round, despite being founded in 2002. The investment comes from a consortium of private Swiss investors and well-known German tech investor Peter Zencke, a former SAP executive board member and head of research and […]
Posted on November 7th, 2013 by admin
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NoSQL Database hosting service MongoHQ, a Y Combinator alum, has suffered a major security breach that appears to be a major factor in an attack over the weekend on Buffer, the social media scheduling service. The MongoHQ intrusion is affecting customers of the hosting service and potentially also their S3 storage accounts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2013 by admin
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